In natural language parsing, a stemmer algorithm is software that derives the base root of a word, or "word stem." For example, "make" is the word stem in "maker" and "making." See natural ...

In the age of Facebook and Netflix, the word “algorithm” has become so ubiquitous, and its connotation so amorphous, that it’s verging on jargon—maybe even cliché. The Atlantic’s Ian ...